Pakistan obliged to extradite suspects: India

NEW DELHI: India on Monday demanded from Pakistan extradition of perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks so that they can be brought to justice in India.

It also said that it cannot believe a commando-type operation that was in evidence in Mumbai attacks could have taken place without anybody in the Pakistani establishment knowing it.

"Our goals are clear. We want the perpetrators to be brought to Indian justice," Foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told reporters here briefing them on the material shared with Pakistan today on elements based there linked to the terrorists responsible for the Mumbai carnage.

"All that we want is action and not words from Pakistan. But so far there is no evidence of it," he said replying to questions.

"We have given them material that has come up during our investigations. We hope Pakistan will investigate this material that leads to Pakistan, share the results with us and extend to us legal assistance so that we can bring the perpetrators to Indian justice," Menon said.

"The assistance from Pakistan extends up to and includes extradition," he said.

Menon said that under the SAARC convention, Pakistan was obliged to hand over Mumbai attackers to India.

Maintaining that the time was not for words but for substance and action, Menon said so far India has "not seen any action at all" from Pakistan.

"We would like to see real action as soon as possible," he said in reply to a question on a time-frame for a response from Pakistan.